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Twitter To Block Third-Party Paid Tweets

Posted by Soulskill on from the cutting-spam-and-competition dept.

tekgoblin writes "Today Twitter announced on its blog an upcoming change to its Terms of Service. The change will not allow anyone to promote paid tweets through the Twitter API. Twitter had announced previously that it will be releasing a 'Promoted Tweets' platform for advertisers that will be non-intrusive and will always be relevant to the Twitter timeline. This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers that relied on the paid tweets that will be blocked shortly. Depending on how expensive the Twitter Promoted Tweets will be, this will show us whether or not Promoted Tweets will be good for the little guy."

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  1. Violation of free speech! by newdsfornerds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unconstitutional!
    LUL

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  2. This is our turf... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here, the competition sleeps with the failwhale.

  3. Sucks for this company... by vrillusions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just read that A new paid tweet service was launched in japan.

  4. And nothing of value was lost by ShaunC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers that relied on the paid tweets

    If you "rely" on "paid tweets," go fuck yourself and find an actual business model. Seriously.

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    1. Re:And nothing of value was lost by Bakkster · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If your business model is entirely dependant upon another company's service (Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, eBay, etc), then you have no guarantee that your business model will exist tomorrow. Not the best way to run a business.

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  5. "We don't seek to control what users tweet." by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Informative

    In order to continue to provide clarity, our guiding principles include:
    1. We don't seek to control what users tweet. And users own their own tweets.

    So users are still free to tweet "Blue Sun makes the BEST saddles in the verse! #blueSun #spaceHorse" and receive payment from Blue Sun, but apps can't display ads in the feed that aren't coming from twitter?

    Meh, fine by me.

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  6. Pooping by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pooping. Poop is coming out now.

    This tweet brought to you by Ex-Lax. Helping you to "go", when the going gets tough.

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  7. What is a "paid Tweet"? by TheSync · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what is a "paid Tweet"?

    If Barack Obama tweets about politics, and he is paid to be the President of the USA, is that a "paid tweet"?